Morrissey
You Are the Quarry

Lest his hopelessly downtrodden fans forget that life sucks and the world is
an awful place, Morrissey has come storming out of his self-imposed, seven-year
sabbatical to release You Are the Quarry, a collection filled with a
combination of music and lyrics that is brutally blunt, angry, and louder than
bombs. Just on the opening trilogy of tunes, he delivers blows to American
foreign policy, U.K. society, and organized religion before settling down to
ponder the problems with both his love life and his career. That it’s all
delivered with an egocentric air shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone —
after all, Morrissey forever has played perfectly the part of the brooding,
narcissistic misanthrope — but the passion, focus, and intensity of his
performance will startle many long-time fans who otherwise had cast off all hope
that the former frontman for The Smiths would ever rediscover his voice.

Throughout You Are the Quarry, Morrissey and his entourage dabble in a
variety of sounds and styles, wandering from the hip-hop beats that launch
America Is Not the World to the jazzy flute accompaniment that concludes
I’m Not Sorry, from the marching guitar-laden chug of How Can Anybody
Possibly Know How I Feel? to the Beatle-esque pop of The World Is Full of
Crashing Bores. Yet, all of it serves primarily to frame the crooner’s
voice, which sounds better than ever, having lost none of its soaring, majestic,
Merseybeat charm. That it also serves to place his lyrics front and center is
certainly no accident, and when all is said and done, You Are the Quarry
is Morrissey’s most consistently engaging endeavor since Vauxhall and I,
if not Viva Hate.

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